Boy! The past six months have flown by. Does anyone else feel like as life goes on, kids come along, jobs get busier, and responsibilities increase you're moving at hyperspeed and have tunnel vision? The end of 2014 and beginning of 2015 are moving so quickly. School is always 100mph, there's always more studying/preparation I could be doing, not to mention the extracurricular activities which are needed to beef up the residency resume. Seriously? This is like applying to med school all over again, but on steroids!
As far a Lauren's concerned, she's been grinding away at home projects, making lots of friends, putting in more time as a student of the gospel, and cooking up business ideas. That's not even counting the time we're busy chasing our nine month old turbo turtle around the house. Gee whiz Cal is here, there, and everywhere. He loves to play with cords, open and close books, push buttons on the TV/DVD remote, reorganize our movie collection, waddle behind his walker, and fill his belly with graham crackers and green beans.
So it's no wonder that when we get to a Friday afternoon (I always test Friday morning and have a little class until noon and then we're free for the weekend) it feels like the week has flown by. Then we're scheming how to make our weekend productive, eventful, fun, adventurous, and relaxed which makes for a fast weekend and we're back at it on Monday.
So you might be wondering, "what does this have to do with flashlights and Lanters?" Well, this week we learned about childhood development in class, specifically early childhood development. One of the highlights was that babies and adults learn differently. "Duh! You don't have to be a doctor to know that!" OK, but how are they different? In what ways do adults learn that kids don't and vice versa? The details of answering that question are a little more tricky. Simply stated, adults are like flashlights, when we want to learn something, we focus intently on it, like focusing the beam of a spotlight. During that time, other parts of our brain are seemingly "dark." Babies and small kids, on the other hand, are like lanterns. They don't focus their attention into a beam and hone in on one thing. Babies keep their minds open to many stimuli in the environment and try to soak in whatever their lantern light touches.
This probably isn't what the Lord was talking about in the scriptures when He admonishes us to be like little children, but I don't think He would disagree that we need to take time to be still, turn off our flashlights, and appreciate and enjoy the view in the lantern light.
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